19 August 2008

Beguinague Bridge over the Dijver canal in Bruges (Belgium)

Welcome Winter, how cracks your ice?
Fills your snow the valleys?
I have here spring thaw at the hearth
And no fire to fetch.
Blow you storm, through the firmament?
Wall and roof can bare it.
Pour you dampness down in streams?
My glass shall aside it put.

Guido Gezelle, 
poet born in Bruges